Chapter 80: Funeral

Emperor Taishang Bintian, in the silent night, the bell rings for a long time, corresponding to the barking of dogs, and the national mourning day begins.

At this time, it was February, the early spring was warm and cold, the sky was not yet bright, Ouyang only wore a thin filial piety clothes, and he helped the emperor to come out of Changchun Garden, and galloped to the palace with a large army.

Li Dequan had a cloak on his arm, but he didn't dare to approach to put it on for Banzai for a while, just because Ouyang's face was too serious and too cold.

The chief steward, who has accompanied Kangxi for most of his life, sighed lowly, and felt relieved in his heart, although Banzai never cried, and even did not shed tears, but, compared with other emperors who cried harshly, Li Dequan still felt that Banzai's feelings for the emperor were the most selfless and sincere.

This is actually Li Dequan's misunderstanding, saying that there is no possibility of selfish desires, and sincerity is not wrong, but when it comes to the depth of feelings, Ouyang cannot compare to Kangxi's real sons, after all, Kangxi's other children may be afraid of Kangxi and resentful, but they must also be respectful, at least, deeper and more complicated than Ouyang's feelings for him.

Ouyang watched from afar, and saw these people kneeling on the ground, crying loudly, most of them were crying so much that their eyes were swollen and red, and tears flowed like a mourner, and from time to time some of them fainted from crying, so that the guards took them aside to pour the divine decoction, which made his head hurt a little.

Ouyang had a serious face, and he didn't look at them, but just helped Huang Yu step by step, feeling a little uncomfortable, Kangxi was not a stranger to him after all, he had been getting along for nearly twenty years, although that person was a high emperor, but he was also like a charitable and strict elder......

All the way into the palace gate, to the Qianqing Palace, the officials of the Ministry of Rites about the funeral have also been arranged, what military officials are close to send lovesickness, princesses and Fujin are close to look forward to show condolences, arranged in an orderly manner, rules and regulations, these are all looking for old examples, Ouyang just asked a thing or two, so that there is no need to bother.

The mourning music sounded, when the emperor was buried, it was already time to fight, some of the older ministers were pale and crumbling, and several fainted, Yinzhen was a little worried about the national funeral, and the old ministers also got sick.

After the funeral, Ouyang personally offered sacrifices, and the princes and hundreds of officials accompanied them to mourn, and they tossed until the moontop treetops at night before the ceremony was completed.

When the people who should stay in the palace to keep vigil are settled, and the remaining tired officials are dispersed, the night is already deep, and the palace is full of white lanterns, which makes people's hearts furious, Ouyang is the emperor, and there will be political affairs to deal with tomorrow, so naturally he can't stay vigil, as long as he worships three times a day in the morning, noon, and evening.

Therefore, Ouyang left the Qianqing Palace, and went all the way to the Chuxiu Palace where Zhiyun lived temporarily, Zhiyun had just come back at this time, tired for a day, there was no food in his stomach, Honghao Hongtian and his little face were red from the cold, and his tentacles were cold.

In July and October, two boiled hot porridge is heated on the stove, the lords must keep filial piety, meat is not touched, these porridges are just white porridge with a little light side dishes, it is okay on weekdays, but the hunger is fierce, and it feels full to eat it.

Zhiyun was worried that the children would be hungry, and she also took care of the rules such as having to eat a lot, so she served two more bowls in October, especially Honghao and Hongday, it was the time to grow the body, but she couldn't be hungry, and prepared a potion to ward off the cold, and one person poured a bottle, except for the baby daughter Xiao Gengen, which was grape-flavored, and the others, including Ouyang, were all drunk and frowned, after eating, freshening up, and sending the children out with a cloak, Zhiyun exhaled, leaned on the kang, disrupted the wet hair, and threw Ouyang a white towel of cotton cloth.

"Did you see it today?"

"What?" Ouyang took a towel, carefully wiped his daughter-in-law's watery hair, and asked casually.

"You weren't paying attention?" Zhiyun smiled, thinking that all day today, Ouyang was indeed a little absent-minded, blinked, and said with a smile, "When the body of the Emperor Taishang first arrived at the Qianqing Palace, the palace concubines knelt down and bowed, and Concubine De stood a few steps back than Concubine Yi, hehe, if Concubine De is the queen mother, I'm afraid Concubine Yi won't be able to fall well, now, Concubine De's position in the fourth concubine is lower than Concubine Yi, and her background is not as good as Concubine Yi of Guo Luoluo's family, and she has cut off the road of her own queen mother......"

"Didn't you see it, she looked at Concubine Yi's eyes hot, I was so cautious when I saw it, but the Concubine Yi didn't feel it, she only cried with her heart, as if all her thoughts were on the body of the Long Live Lord, and it made Concubine De very angry, and the other concubines also turned a blind eye to it, and even a few young ones were too composed, gloating so much that they almost forgot to cry......"

Ouyang glanced at his smiling daughter-in-law and smiled: "You are happy to watch the play today." "I didn't expect that my daughter-in-law is quite emotional, women, even if she is a woman who is a mage, she can't be absolutely rational, how Concubine De treats Yinzhen is actually not her family's business at all, but Zhiyun still has some minds, otherwise, she wouldn't have paid attention to it in front of Kangxi's spirit.

But Ouyang is different, he is not the real Yinzhen, he will not play any mother's filial piety with Concubine De, nor will he play a mother's rebellion, there is no love at all, where can he hate?

No matter how Concubine De is, he will also give Concubine De decency, food and clothing, absolutely indispensable, how to do it before, how to do it now, of course, the queen mother's title that can suppress Zhiyun and cause trouble to Ouyang can't be added to Concubine De's head. Besides, Emperor Taishang Bintian personally made a decree to raise Concubine De on the 14th day, and Concubine De will not be in the palace in the future, and the time to see each other is short, presumably no matter whether she has love or resentment towards Yinzhen in her heart, it can turn into smoke and dust with the passage of time.

The next day, early in the morning, Ouyang went to deal with political affairs, and by the way, he took away two large boxes of tiger bone paste, both of which were contained in boxes made of cold jade.

Zhiyun's pet Yang Yang has a very good mouth recently, especially loves to eat live animals, and it has to be beasts of prey, general ducks, rabbits, geese and other domestic animals, people can't look down on it, this little guy goes to the royal paddock every day, as well as the gardens of various princes and ministers in the capital, especially those who like to raise rare birds and beasts, and they lost their 'treasures' and almost didn't go to Shuntianfu to complain.

Of course, Yangyang came and went without a trace, even if they complained, they couldn't catch this guy, their own pets pounced on those tigers, bears or something every day, and their mouths were very tight, picking fat and thin, none of them ate completely, they had nothing to do in October, and they collected a lot of tiger bones, tiger whips, bear paws and the like.

Zhiyun thought about it, smiled, reached out and called the petite and delicate, pretending to be a cat, hugged it on his knee and scratched his belly, and chuckled: "You little naughty ghost, you can go to the royal paddock in the future, don't keep beating other people's domestic rare birds and beasts, be careful that you yourself are stomped on as a snack." ”

Don't say it, others Zhiyun doesn't know, but the seventh elder brother must hate Yangyang so much that the roots of his teeth itch, and he can't wait to peel it and eat meat. A few months ago, Yangyang caught a white peacock from the rare bird garden of the seventh prince's family, it is said that it is the favorite of the seventh prince, and he has to feed it himself almost every day, and praised his peacock for its good appearance in front of his brothers and ministers several times, but as a result, the poor white peacock not only did not even keep his bones, but even the feathers on his body were made into shuttlecocks in July and played with the little girls, so that Ouyang had a fever on his face when he met the seventh elder brother who jumped on his feet a few days.

However, Zhiyun herself and the girls around her were full of interest in the corners and corners of the beasts that Yangyang had brought back.

Let's just say that this tiger bone paste, even in the Qing Dynasty, the real tiger bone paste is not very common, and there are more in the palace, most of the so-called tiger bone paste on the market is indiscriminately filled, and there are not many real tiger bones.

And Zhiyun's family is still different from the ordinary, although it is not Zhiyun himself, but they have also been refined in July and October, the two girls are not what they used to be, and they are more capable, especially in October, they are very talented in making potions, and the technology of cultivating magic plants is also proficient.

Now, the magic botanical garden in the entire floating city is managed by her, and sometimes she also 'fake public and private', cultivating some very useful medicinal materials for herself, if the girls in the house have a headache and brain fever, most of them don't go to see the doctor, and directly ask for a bottle of potion in October, and pour it down the next day.

October has always been serious and careful, she made tiger bone ointment, although it is a practice, but also extremely attentive, not only added a lot of precious medicinal materials, but also condensed the essence in the magic array, it can be said that a pound of tiger bones, can be made into a small half of the plaster, its effect is so good, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a panacea, ordinary people can not afford to use.

Ouyang took these tiger bone ointment, because of the recent crying spirit, not only the ministers knelt and worshipped, making their knees hurt, even the emperors were uncomfortable, Ouyang, the emperor, could not but care, most of the good medicinal materials in his hands were sent to the brothers, and his seventh elder brother got a whole big box, and the other elder brothers divided the rest equally, so that the courtiers inevitably muttered a few words in their stomachs, it is said that the seventh elder brother is not close to the emperor, and, in terms of ability, he is not as good as several other elder brothers, how do you think so, Long live the Lord who thinks a lot of attention to him......

Of course, probably no one will know that Ouyang feels that his daughter-in-law's pet is harming other people's pets, so he can't help it, and he will compensate elsewhere.